Projects A handful of Madison's civic hacking projects currently in use

Transit Tools

A customizable browser dashboard that shows arrival times for two stops of your choosing

Adopt-a-Hydrant

Adopt-a-hydrant is an open-source project built and shared by Code for America. It encourages citizen engagement by letting individuals sign up as a caregiver for a fire hydrant when the snow storms hit. This Rails app has been customized and deployed here in Madison.

Transit API

An extension to the original SMS application, this unofficial API provides a web services wrapper around the Metro's transit data to enabled organizations to build their own Madison transit applications. Access:'

MadSafety

Madison Crimeline

Using Open Incident Data, which is updated frequently with whitty quips written by the Madison Police Department's aspiring authors (mainly PIO Joel DeSpain), this app creates a timeline of Incident data overlayed on a map using geospacial data.

City Data

Hackery Some of the tools in our toolbox

The number and breadth of tools and resources available to technologists is what makes all of this work possible. We've taken advantage of a number of open source projects, hosted solutions and APIs to build these apps. These tools also enable us to stay better connected. Please join the conversation.

Past Events Getting the community together

CityHack 2013

On Friday, October 25th, from 9am to 5pm, Madison Tech Companies, including Bendyworks and Hardin Design and Development will be joining forces for a Madison hackathon session. Developers from both companies will be meeting at Central Library to work on day-long projects that make Madison a better place to live. We've been gather ideas and reviewing other open source projects from groups such as Code for America. Developers, graphic artists, and tinker'ers are free to team up with anyone present, or work on projects before the event. There are no prizes, other than working in a collaborative effort alongside other developers from around the area.

There is no RSVP required. Please invite anyone you believe would be interested.

CityCamp 2013

On Saturday, October 26th at the Madison Public Library, third annual CityCamp unconference will bring together local government officials, municipal employees, programmers, designers, citizens, and journalists to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live.

Civic Hacking Madison Meetup

Civic Tribe Meet the Doers

Madison is filled with talented people that volunteer in all sorts of great ways. This group has given their time, energy and expertise to build some of these great projects for Madison and help move the dialog along to encourage the city to open up more data and be more accessible for its citizens. Join us!